He was born in San Francisco, raised in Seattle, and studied English and American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
He spent his twenties in San Francisco, where he was active in the spoken word scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s, publishing five chapbooks of poetry as well as numerous poems and short stories in various reviews, journals,[1] anthologies and zines.
He won a second Ferro-Grumley Award in 2013 for A Horse Named Sorrow.
He was awarded the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2013.
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